"The
best ideas usually turn up when they're least expected. After seeing a
selection of Pre-Raphaelite posters, I became caught up with the
possibility of creating a painting centered around romance. But first I
needed an idea. An afternoon of dangling my feet in an Indian Canyon's
oasis stream, sitting on a palm-shaded boulder, produced the basic concept
for this print. Nature provides a chorus of lively sounds to both inspire
and lift the human spirit, or to relax and soothe our troubled hearts. But
how does an artist communicate the emotional spirit of music in a strictly
visual medium? I believed nature would provide an answer . And it did. I
chose to convey my inspiration both symbolically and literally - with the
Native American flute player emerging from the Rocky Mountain landscape
and with the Mountain Bluebirds taking off in flight." - Bev Doolittle